100 Films to Watch to Help You Understand China - Pop(corn) Culture
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- DirectorPeter WangStarsPeter WangSharon IwaiKelvin Han YeeA gentle investigation of the clash of cultures when a Chinese-American family from San Francisco descends on their relatives in Peking. In HD.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsYou GeXiaogang FengPei LiuFour friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
- DirectorNing HaoStarsTao GuoTeddy LinHua LiuWhat do you get when you have a precious jewel, a group of bumbling thieves intent on getting their hands on it, the mob wanting a piece of the action, and a loyal but mischievous security guard all thrown together? Crazy Stone. It's a fast paced, wisecracking caper comedy that will have you engaged and entertained from the word go. This is China's answer to Ocean's Eleven, with many comic twists and turns thrown in for good measure.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsChow Yun-FatWen JiangYou GeIn 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsLouis KooHonglei SunYi HuangA drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.
- DirectorXiaolu XueStarsTang WeiXiubo WuHai-QingA woman from Beijing, pregnant with the child of her rich married boyfriend flies to Seattle in order to deliver the baby. There she meets another Chinese immigrant man working as a driver, even as she finds her life beginning to change.
- DirectorRaman HuiStarsBaihe BaiBoran JingWu JiangHuman and monsters have lived in their separate worlds, but after the birth of Wuba, the last of the monster kings, begins the adventure to bring the two races together.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsXiaogang FengHanyu ZhangQing XuA well respected man residing in what's left of old-Beijing attempts to exonerate his son from his wrongdoings with his own methods and beliefs.
- DirectorStephen ChowStarsChao DengShow LoYuqi ZhangShan, a mermaid, is sent to assassinate Xuan, a developer who threatens the ecosystem of her race, but ends up falling in love with him instead.
- DirectorJohnny MaStarsGang ChenNai AnHongwei WangA psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.